Thursday, May 12, 2005

The editorial, directories and photography departments from our company went on a two day retreat to Fall Creek Falls. And yes, it has been a fun night tonight.

Meet Mr. Boshier. He is one of my partners in crime, one of the five staff photographers for our company. Per his request, I grabbed my camera and started shooting candids during our cookout tonight. It was rather dark outside and he had the great idea of using stroboscopic flash sequencing to get some interesting shots. Perfect idea Antony, perfect.

I opened the aperture to f/3.5 with an extremely slow shutter speed of 1.6 seconds, which seems like an eternity to shoot with. We loaded the strobe to fire five times during the exposure. During the exposure, he made a slow run in front of the lens and this is what we got. You have a great blue tone in the sky from the ambient light after sundown and five images of him from the individual strobe flashes. There was not Photoshop manipulation involved in the crafting of this image, just FYI. The darkness of the forest allowed for the perfect exposure. Ain't it fun? I think so. More to come from Fall Creek Falls.

Wes Aldridge

Wes Aldridge is a commercial photographer based in Nashville, TN.

About Me

I've worked as a professional photographer since 2005 when I graduated from college. I took my first job as a staff photographer traveling for a magazine publishing company. Now, I am independent and work on projects including advertising, PR, portraiture and music promo.

Currently, my work is revolving around music and commercial photography. I've been a guitar player since middle school, so naturally I'm drawn to photograph something I love dearly. I've been fortunate enough to work with several major label recording artists over the past few years, as well as plenty of independent artists.

My main focus is photography, but I've done a good bit of writing professionally as well. I wrote music for Billboard Magazine, covered college football for The Associated Press, did PR writing for Tennessee Titans football players, and have been published in many local Nashville media outlets.

My studio is located in East Nashville. I'm available to shoot there or on location.

Feel free to email me if you have a job inquiry, or just want to say hello!